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FI R ST BA PTIST CHURCH / JEF F ERSON C ITY, MO
Each summer, I use this column to
in the Battle of Little Big Horn. The
visit with you about books. I hope your
book offers a more complete portrait
spring/summer reading will be as rich
of a very complex person. As a bonus,
and varied as mine has been so far.
Stiles has a gift for describing the
When I completed Shane Claiborne’s
period’s cultural setting in ways that
The Irresistible Revolution, I felt as
make the story come alive.
if I needed to read the entire New
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Testament again. Don’t read Revolution
I just finished Bobby Kennedy—A
if you want to stay the way you are.
Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews and
As Claiborne writes, “Jesus will really
soon, I plan to tackle Jon Meacham’s
July 8-15
mess you up!” I just finished reading
biography of President George H.W.
an old book, The Will of God, authored
Bush (notice my adroit political
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by my late theology professor, Dr.
balancing act!).
Morris Ashcraft. Reading those pages transported me back to his classroom,
Every summer, I try to read at least
where his lectures were models of
one classic and this year, it’s going to
clarity and depth.
be John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Let me hear from you about your reading.
Earlier this year, I read Custer’s Trials by
Have a blessed summer.
T.J. Stiles. Sadly, about the only thing
Grace,
most of us know about General George
Doyle
Armstrong Custer is that he was killed
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